Rex Carsrud papers, 1942 [manuscript].

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 86th

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United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th

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The 10th Mountain Division, a full division of the United States Army, specializing in mountain and winter warfare, trained at Camp Hale, Colorado, during World War II. Experienced in skiing, mountaineering and cold-weather survival as well as military tactics, the soldiers fought enemy forces in the Italian Campaign of 1945. Dubbed the "ski troops" by the press, the 10th Mountain Division remains the only military division recruited by a civilian organization, the National Ski Patrol. Many 10th...

Carsrud, Rex, 1910-1976.

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Rex Carsrud was born in Wyo. in 1910 and enlisted in the Army in 1943 at Denver, Colo. He had completed one year of college, had an occupation of salesman and was married at the time of his enlistment. Carsrud joined the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colo. serving also at Camp Swift, Tex. He was assigned to Company L of the 86th Infantry Battalion attaining the rank of Staff Sergeant. From the description of Rex Carsrud papers, 1942 [manuscript]. (Denver Public Library). World...